Author: haider

Polio is still a critical problem in Pakistan where vaccination efforts have stalled. Khalida Nasreen is on a mission to change that. Every morning at 5 a.m., she hops on a motorbike and makes her way around Karachi, going door-to-door to inoculate the children in town. It’s a dangerous job as healthcare workers have lost their lives in the same pursuit, but that doesn’t stop Khalida. Thanks to her efforts, the prevalence of polio in town has decreased, building a brighter future for the next generation of Pakistani children.

The Reham Khan Show is a 2015 Pakistani talk show on Dawn News TV, that is hosted by British Pakistani journalist Reham Khan.
The format of the show involves personalities from various fields, that have contributed in uplifting Pakistan’s image and have become a source of inspiration for the audience, being invited and the story of their life being told.
Director of photography: Haider Ali

Deep in the slums of Pakistan’s biggest city is a 15-months-old boy with a problem that could, perhaps should, have been conquered long before he was born.
Mustafa crawls happily across the dirt floor of his home in Karachi, but when his mother tries to stand him up his difficulties become obvious.

His leg is visibly weak and his foot twisted and hanging uselessly at an odd angle.

While most of the world has consigned polio to history, as ITV News Diplomatic Correspondent John Ray reports, Mustafa’s world will be confined by its crippling effects.

Award winning director Mohammed Naqvi’s short film “Happy Things In Sorrow Times”, inspired by best-selling author Tehmina Durrani’s book of the same name. Set against the backdrop of the ongoing war, “Happy Things in Sorrow Times” is a delicately-wrought tale—told from the hopeful heart of an Afghan child—of love, hardship, separation, loss and fear.
I worked as a D.O.P on this film , hope you like it .

Pakistan is home to the third largest population in debt bondage, most belonging to marginalized religious minorities. Undercover Asia investigates why millions of men, women and children survive by pledging their labor as security for the repayment for a debt that they can never repay.
Cinematographer: Haider Ali

Charismatic cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi, an ISIS supporter and Taliban ally, is waging jihad against the Pakistani state. His dream is to impose a strict version of Shariah law throughout the country, as a model for the world. A flashpoint in Aziz’s holy war took place in 2007, when the government leveled his flagship mosque to the ground, killing his mother, brother, only son and 150 students. With unprecedented access, Among the Believers follows Aziz on his very personal quest to create an Islamic utopia, during the bloodiest period in Pakistan’s modern history.